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Around the World in Eighty Days: New Translation with illustrations by Ross Collins by Jules Verne
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
Having learnt that a new railway in India has made it theoretically possible to travel all the way around the globe in no more than eighty days, Phileas Fogg, a wealthy and fastidious London gentleman, makes a wager of 20,000 with his Reform Club associates that he can achieve this hitherto unheard-of f ...Show more
Belle and Sebastien: The Child of The Mountains by Cécile Aubry
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
The son of a gypsy woman, S#65533;bastien is found as a newborn baby in the Alps and brought up by C#65533;sar and his grandchildren Ang#65533;lina and Jean. Born on the same day, Belle is a beautiful white Pyrenean Mountain Dog who has been neglected and passed on from owner to owner, until one day she ...Show more
Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott; Ella Bailey (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
Three years have passed since the events narrated in Little Women, and the four March sisters are approaching adulthood, with all its accompanying challenges and expectations. Meg is preparing for her wedding, Beth continues to struggle with her health, Jo is more than ever devoting herself to literatur ...Show more
Tales from Shakespeare: Deluxe Edition with illustrations by Arthur Rackham by Sir Charles; Rackham Mary; Lamb Lamb
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
This retelling in prose of twenty of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays was originally published just for children. Keeping Shakespeare's own words whenever possible but making the plots and language easily understandable, this very listenable collection has entertained and informed generations of adults ...Show more
The Red Badge of Courage by Crane, Stephen
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
On a cold morning, at daybreak, the 304th New York Regiment is waiting to engage with the Confederate army. Among the soldiers is young Henry Fleming, who has enlisted against his mother's wishes and is now shaken by a sense of fear and regret at the prospect of battle. But when the confrontation begins ...Show more
The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
Deeply bored by the lack of mental stimulus and the dull routine of existence, Sherlock Holmes is about to resort to his daily dose of cocaine in order to get a thrill, when an elegantly dressed young woman called Mary Morstan enters his room and presents her case to him and Watson. Her father has myste ...Show more
The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit; Peter Bailey (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius ("H.O.") Bastable are desperate to help their widowed father to restore the family's fortunes after his business fails. Their moneymaking schemes, from digging for treasure in their South-London garden to becoming highwaymen on Blackheath, mainly lead ...Show more
White Fang by Jack London; Ian Beck (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876-1916) - and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold ...Show more
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